Background: Studies measuring human growth hormone (hGH) in blood during exercise have mainly used venous sampling. The invasive nature of this procedure makes evaluation of hGH impossible in various ...
OBJECTIVE: To determine if heel warming prior to heelstick increases the volume of blood collected compared to no warming. STUDY DESIGN: Randomized controlled trial involving 100 preterm and term ...
The specimen of choice that enables the collection of small blood volumes from neonatal or critically ill patients is a capillary blood specimen. This specimen type has gained favour with many ...
VolitionRx Limited (NYSE AMERICAN: VNRX) ("Volition"), a multi-national epigenetics company, today announces a major technical milestone with the successful detection of nucleosomes in capillary blood ...
A new publication in Nature Communications demonstrates that remotely self-collected capillary blood samples can be used to measure Alzheimer's disease biomarkers associated with cognitive decline and ...
In a recent study published on the medRxiv* preprint server, a multinational group of scientists investigated the performance characteristics of several point-of-care (POC) diagnostic kits for the ...
An at-home, mail-in, finger-stick blood test detected Alzheimer’s-related biomarkers associated with cognitive performance in ...
Nowadays a blood test usually requires a doctor’s visit, a needle poke in the arm, and a day-long wait for results to come back from a lab. So when Silicon Valley start-up Theranos promised a device ...